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{{picture|file=Max Erdmannsdörfer.jpg|caption='''Max Erdmannsdörfer''' (1848-1905)}}
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German conductor, pianist and composer (b. 14 June 1848 {{NS}} in [[Nuremberg]]; d. 14 February 1905 {{NS}} in [[Munich]]).
Russian novelist, poet, literary critic and philosopher (b. 2/14 August 1865 <ref name="note1"/> in [[Saint Petersburg]]; d. 9 December 1941 in [[Paris]]), born '''''Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky''''' (Дмитрий Сергеевич Мережковский).


==Tchaikovsky and Erdmannsdörfer==
==Tchaikovsky's Settings of Works by Merezhkovsky==
After studying at the [[Leipzig]] Conservatory, Erdmannsdörfer became concertmaster at Sonderhausen. In 1882, he became the principal conductor of the Russian Musical Society concerts in [[Moscow]] and professor at the [[Moscow]] Conservatory. Tchaikovsky considered him to be "a very skillful, experienced and expert conductor", although he was "inclined to indulge the public's taste of exaggerated nuances" and "offhanded in his attitude to Russian music (except my own)" <ref name="note1"/>.
Tchaikovsky set two poems by Merezhkovsky in his [[Six Romances, Op. 57]] (1884):
 
* No. 4, ''Sleep!'' (Усни!), after the poem of the same name (1884)
In 1874, he married the pianist and composer [[Pauline Fichtner]] (b. Oprawill, 1847–1916).
* No. 5, ''Death'' (Смерть), after an untitled poem published in 1883.
 
The list of Tchaikovsky's works premiered by Erdmannsdörfer includes the [[Symphony No. 1]] (revised version, 1883), [[Suite No. 2]] (1884), [[Concert Fantasia]] (1885), and the symphony ''[[Manfred]]'' (1886), The composer valued Erdmannsdörfer's arrangement of his ''Chant sans paroles'' (No. 3 from ''[[Souvenir de Hapsal]]'', Op. 2) so highly that Tchaikovsky conducted it himself in 1892.
 
==Dedications==
In 1884, Tchaikovsky dedicated his [[Suite No. 3]] in G major, Op. 55 (1884) to the conductor, to make amends for missing the premiere of his [[Suite No. 2]], which had taken place earlier that year under Erdmannsdörfer's direction <ref name="note2"/>.
 
==Correspondence with Tchaikovsky==
2 letters from Tchaikovsky to Max Erdmannsdörfer have survived, dating from the late 1880s, of which those highlighted in bold have been translated into English on this website:
* [[Letter 2984a]] – 25 June/7 July 1886, from [[Maydanovo]]
* '''[[Letter 3139a]]''' – 1886–1888, from [[Moscow]]
 
3 letters from Erdmannsdörfer to the composer, dating from 1886 and 1888, are preserved in the {{RUS-KLč}} at [[Klin]] (a{{sup|4}}, Nos. 6012–6014).
 
==Bibliography==
* {{bib|2006/2}} (2006)
* {{bib|2006/13}} (2006)
* {{bib|2007/7}} (2007)


==External Links==
==External Links==
* [[wikipedia:Max_Erdmannsdörfer|Wikipedia]]
* [[Wikipedia:Dmitry Merezhkovsky|Wikipedia]]
* {{IMSLP|Erdmannsdörfer,_Max}}
* {{viaf|7423208}}
* {{viaf|45056664}}


==Notes and References==
==Notes and References==
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<references>
<ref name="note1">[[Letter 2173]] to [[Nadezhda von Meck]], 12/24–13/25 December 1882.</ref>
<ref name="note1">Some sources give 1866 as the year of Merezhkovsky's birth.</ref>
<ref name="note2">See {{bib|1901/24|Жизнь Петра Ильича Чайковского ; том 2}} (1901), p. 621, and  [[Letter 2493]] to [[Pyotr Jurgenson]], 21 May/2 June 1884.</ref>  
</references>
</references>
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[[Category:Writers|Merezhkovsky, Dmitry ]]
[[Category:Conductors|Erdmannsdorfer, Max]]
[[Category:Correspondents|Erdmannsdorfer, Max]]
[[Category:Dedicatees|Erdmannsdorfer, Max]]
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Dmitry Merezhkovsky (1865-1941)

Russian novelist, poet, literary critic and philosopher (b. 2/14 August 1865 [1] in Saint Petersburg; d. 9 December 1941 in Paris), born Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky (Дмитрий Сергеевич Мережковский).

Tchaikovsky's Settings of Works by Merezhkovsky

Tchaikovsky set two poems by Merezhkovsky in his Six Romances, Op. 57 (1884):

  • No. 4, Sleep! (Усни!), after the poem of the same name (1884)
  • No. 5, Death (Смерть), after an untitled poem published in 1883.

External Links

Notes and References

  1. ↑ Some sources give 1866 as the year of Merezhkovsky's birth.
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